Axel Wandtke Movies

In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the...

Lola controls her personal life with the same ruthless efficiency she uses to optimize profits in her job as a business consultant. But when a tragic...

Philipp, a closeted teacher, is dating a female colleague to keep up appearances. One night he stumbles into a gay bar and falls for a man....

Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the birthday celebrations of an East German family turn into a tragicomical moment of political and personal...

Girl, mother, lover - all in the body of a teenager. Maja has to face the responsibility of early motherhood. Being a child herself she can't stand...

Max Krenke, once a promising journalist, has made himself comfortable at a third-rate newspaper; as a husband and family man, he keeps the hamster...

One evening in the mid-sixties, Rolf Anschütz, a chef who runs a small restaurant in a town called Suhl in the middle of the East German...

In the heyday of rock 'n' roll, Vernon Subutex was one of the most knowledgeable and renowned record store owners in Paris. But since the digital...

Former GDR secret service agent Wolfgang Dreher is sentenced to life imprisonment. While still in the courtroom, he threatens to wake up his sleepers...

Who knows Berthold Beitz? Fewer and fewer people. He shaped the history of Germany like no other, be it as the leading industrial manager of Krupp or...

Jacob tries to hide the suicide of his father because he is afraid to have to live in an orphanage.

A series of ritual murders shakes Hamburg. First a songwriter is stabbed and scalped, then a scientist. Investigations by Kriminalhauptkommissar Jan...

Kaminsky is a long-distance driver disappointed both in life and other people. His last duty as a drives takes him to Estonia where he decides to...

When police officer Jan Vogt wakes up in hospital after an escalated demonstration, the public blames him for what happened. One person died and many...

Two-year-old Paulina is suddenly no longer in her crib, and everything points to an abduction. But the hijacker does not answer.

In the motley final-year class 13e at Kepler School in Neukölln, children who have moved to the western part of the city legally as well as...

In 1938 Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian passport (instead of American, which he would have...

October 2018 was the four-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War. The documentary traces the story of how it was finally...

Young Lena Kehl urgently wants to speak to the Berlin star reporter Meike Marndorfer, but is then driven to her death. Meike senses a story about old...